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Re:Origin of 'Daemon' in Computing by everfrustrated on Sunday October 20, 2024 @10:58AM (#41895755)
I pedantically use day-mon (working/servant spirit) to distinguish from dee-mon (evil spirit) but I suspect I'm very much in the minority.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daimon vs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon

I've never found any significance to associate the unix term with Demons and consider it a mis-association.

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Re:Origin of 'Daemon' in Computing by iwaztomack on Sunday October 20, 2024 @02:04PM (#41897244)
Don't let MAGA hear you... they'll start banning and burning linux boxes.
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